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The SolarWinds Orion Installer is an all-in-one application for installations and upgrades. You use one installer to install or upgrade multiple Orion Platform products and install or upgrade Additional Polling Engines, Additional Web Servers, and High Availability Servers.

This instance is grayed until the poller has polled this node. Once polled, the status color updates.

First, you need the IP address of the cluster.

Connect to the instance that you want monitor using SQL Management Studio.

Execute the following query to make sure you have the proper target node and instance name:SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ServerName')

Determine the IP address of the target node.
Open a command prompt and ping the server: ping NAME. For example, ping P111SQLV23 in the following example. The IP address is determined to be 10.1.70.123.

Next, add the node and assign AppInsight for SQL.

On the Web Console, click Settings > All Settings > Add Node.

If the IP address represents a cluster, the node name of the active cluster member populates.
Enter the IP address for the SQL cluster for the Polling Hostname or IP Address.
SolarWinds recommends changing the node name to something more easily understood during the final step of the Add Node Wizard. For example, for this cluster you could enter the name and (cluster): P111SQLV23 (cluster).

Select a polling method, then select the polling engine for that node.

On the Choose Resources step, check the appropriate AppInsight Application for the SQL server to monitor.

Complete the wizard as instructed to add the node for monitoring.

Navigate to the All Applications resource and click your AppInsight for SQL application.
The Enter Credentials screen displays.